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Low guitarist and singer-songwriter follows up 2024’s White Roses, My God with a new album in collaboration with longtime friends and fellow Minnesotans, Trampled By Turtles ...
Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...
Issue 498 August 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 498. Inside our brand new issue: Bill Orcutt: The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy ...
Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025 Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...
The Japanese paramedia artist and digital composer has died. By way of tribute, we have made Alan Licht’s 2002 interview with Tone free to read in our online library ...
Listen to tracks from Jair-Rohm Parker Wells's new album April 2016 Jair-Rohm Parker Wells at his mother's house in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, March 2016. Photo by Heji Shin ...
Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.
The Pere Ubu singer has died at the age of 71. As a tribute we have made a number of articles on him and the group free to read in the online library Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and ...
The UK outsider singer-songwriter has died aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Rob Young’s 2005 interview in The Wire 253 free to read in our online library.
The UK jazz and free music pianist died in February aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Julian Cowley’s 2010 interview in The Wire 318 free to read in our online library.
Issue 493 March 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on ...
The US pedal steel guitarist passed away suddenly in January. As a tribute, we have made Peter Margasak’s 2020 interview in The Wire 442 free to read in our online magazine library.